Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-03
STORMING THE ISLES.
THINGS AMERICAN HAVE CAP
rURnD JOHN BULL.


Monologue by Noble Loro o"
Experience In The states NO
present Craze in London Town
E,.,, the Philadelphia Record.
roSpoN. March 19.-The craze for
ovorvthiug American has broken out In
am force oil over staid old London town.
probably the approaching exhibition
NOV have a little TO do with it. Walking
down PlccadilIy yesterday L bethought
ma of several articles in the fancy grocer
,es line which were getting low down IN
NV domestic larder. SO l strayed into
mv Cayortte shop, shop OF foreign ware
housemen, who keep asupply OF all sorts
opd conditions of American goods. In
doad pye suggested to the firm many arti-
clos tney never would have dreamed Of
eating. such as real American oysters,
nrIme in quality and brought over In fast
staamers. For, be not deceived, my
Philadelphia friends. the English oysters
ore decisions and coppery snares, even II
they be the celebrated expensive "Whit-
s,ah,e natives" whatever be their claim
m no eatsn by the oyster epicure.
Lacking about the shop my attention
was arrested by the ultra swell voice OF
an ultra swell Englishman. The unde-
anad journalistic sense OF something
rich about to develop itself caused me TO
.ratreat out OF immediate view among the
barrels and boxes, and to say in low
tome TO the clerks 81 am In no hurry;
nlease let me listen." They all know
me, and are used to my putting down
what do as another American "eccen-
tricity.n Therefore the clerk made no
comment, ouly bringing me high stool to
,it unon. By this time the swell (whom
for convenience sake, and since l don't
know mis- name, we will call Lord
Siandashv) was we'll launched out in his
ordering OF supplies. Listening to this
and thinking much about it meanwhile,
I,ye concluded that l could not do better
than to tell my friends all about 1t, for 1t
ia droll adventure and one fraught
with deal of meaning to the reflective
American.
"Pve been to the States, doncherknow,"
eaid Slapdash'
The clerk bowed, and In an lnterroga-
tive wav remarked:
'YesT'
The Lord in question was a new Gus
TONER. so what could be said with more
appropriatenesst
| went to take a six weeks outing, and
got there when they were eating corn
Imean maiEe-on the cob, and all that
sort OF thing"
Precisely" put in the clerk.
"Well, 1t il a most extraordinary sight;
they eat it boiled-I mean The corn-and
nut butter on it, and salt and pepper,
served out OF individual cruets. pom
ION, really. l. looks strange to see the
people moving each side, this way and
that, chewing corn. At first it turned me
quite faint, it looked so much like ooun-
try pumpkins, away off in Somerset
,hire, at a Michaelmas fair, doncher-
know. But there was an awfully jolly
girl at the inn i put up at the Continen-
tai in Philadelphia first of all, City of
Brotherly Love. and all that sort Of
thing, and got fearful spoons on her
before | knew who she was, or il she mad
any birth, you know. Well, l saw her
hard at this corn, and her hands and
arms we're lovely as they say in the
States. You see Pve got the American
dialect already, dOncherknow. Well, 1
made up my mind to have "a go' at that
extraordinary corn, 80 l watched the
young lady, and l got on beautifully.
Then the peaches came next in season.
And they were extraordinary as well.
PVe paid halt a crown for peach in
Regent street, but in the States you get,
should say, two pounds OF peaches for q
shilling, or one ana siXpenoe. After the
peaches came the oysters. My word!
the Americans know an oyster when they
see it. So made up my mind to stop
year on the other side, to get all the Yam
Eee things in their season. Pve been
everywhere in the States. Went away
down in Louisiana to get 'peck-kan' nuts
fresh. { Let me parenthetically remark
that despite young Lord sSiapdash's pro-
nunciauon. he alluded to our ordinary
American pecan NUT Ya-as, peck-kans
and peanuts. But like peanuts best on
Broadway. They sell them In New York
on Broadway fresh roasted. l used to
buy big paper full Of them aud eat them
when got back to my chambers In the
Brevoort, another good inn"
-, "Yes, we have peanuts" observed the
clerk.
Have you, really" answered my
Lord.
On which the peanuts, unroasted, were
produced; also samples OF them roasted
shelled and put up In bottles. The pecan
nuts were shown AS well. These latter my
Lord ordered large quantity Of for q
prospective dinner party. But he drew
the line al peanuts.
gu see, he explained, "tbey taste SO
"'AS4oHt W men lu6y re not. NOW. C0ulQu' Z
you roast them to order? They have In
The States large iron machine that
turns around with Goals under 1t, and
turns the peanuts out every hour, dom
cherknoW.O
WELL" suggested the clerk, 1--WE
toasted some at Christmas In our coffee
tIosster for Alice Atherton's Mrs. Willie
huouln's) children's party, and they
roasted beautifully"
MOI at ALL" calculated his Lordship;
the coffee rooster never! Why it would
axe all that delicious fragrance away, a
fragrance quite oriental"
Ohl now L laughed to myself behind
suose screening barrels. To think that
snuouiu i've to hear the peculiar Odor OF
.ne unaer6red peanut denominated as
bility. NV
mo, he continued, "there is no way
w. w. W import machine, with = man to
~ II, and put W sign: Peanuts
nesn roasted every hour.' But Pll take
"eVrn-popper II you have one."
res we have one ON hand" said the
To' as sample, 30 as TO order them
emu america for the holidays for our
S oDutu' But this Is not quite the corn
VVpplng season, Is it?'
n,, .erhaps not, my good man, perhaps
a., out think Pll secure one while Pm
ssa 80 please put up the pepper. You
~. was In the States year, and Pye
nUuSut over an American cOok-a dark
ma p -. Aloned one. Looks like the Moore
Ana burgess Ethiopian Minstrel Show,